Appearance: Haruka is physically unimposing. Short, pale, and a little chubby, she's not what most would consider their definition of a hero. There's nothing in the way of notable muscle in her build, but school activities keep her from being completely physically hopeless. Her face is round, and while she's got good features, she tends to always look a little sleep-deprived and doesn't smile a lot. Her lips are naturally downturned and her eyebrows are flat, which go a long way to make her look irritated even when she isn't. The eyes themselves are dark blue, and her hair is a shade of seafoam right between blue and green. It's long and a bit messy naturally, and instead of bothering to properly deal with it, she just ties it back and calls it a day.
Costume: Haruka's costume is technological in nature, constructed from various technologies and the use of her quirk. It's intentionally built to resemble the heroes of tokusatsu TV shows, and thus has simple colors and a smooth exterior finish. A black bodysuit underneath the armor shows through the joints, and on the legs, black thigh plating meets a large belt with a lime green, v-like 'buckle.' From the knee down, a boot-like design in metallic green takes over. Her midsection is covered with darker grey plating that also covers the groin and biceps, and more green frames her sides and chest. The armor here is built up a little, giving the illusion of a more heroic and masculine body build. Green layered shoulder pads attach to the bicep armor, and bright white gauntlets and gloves cover her arms from elbow-down. On her head, she wears a fairly simple rounded helmet with slightly emphasized ear covers, a solid blue visor, and a large lime green crest that's similar in shape to the belt buckle. Similar lime green pieces are on her elbows, shoulder blades, and chest, while her visor and various lights on her midsection, thighs, and biceps are all bright blue.
Hero Name: Cyborg Hero Hypermeka
Name: Haruka Sanegeyama
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 145 lbs.
Personality:
To put it kindly, Haruka is a shut-in. A handful of anxieties keep her from being especially sociable, but she's come to mostly accept it and go with the flow instead of wasting time angsting over her awkwardness and quiet tendencies. While not unfriendly at all, she just doesn't have a good time approaching strangers or talking at length with anyone less familiar than a very close friend. As such, the number of these friends is few, though she appreciates and loves them for sticking around for long enough to get there. Haruka doesn't really expect folks to give her much in return for her unwilling distance, but once those barriers get worn down, she's sweet as can be, and there's not much she enjoys more than spending her time with people like that. That said, she does still need time to herself quite often.
Due to the free time that comes from commonly being alone, Haruka has come to adore certain media that makes her happy. In particular, the tokusatsu genre in all of its costumes-and-special-effects glory. The action, the stories, the excitement, all of it. To say she's a little obsessed is an understatement, as a peek into her bedroom would prove very quickly. One of her most prized possessions is a 1TB harddrive with every toku show she can think of on it, whether new and expertly choreographed or awkward, clunky, no-budget drivel from the 70s. She considers tokusatsu in all forms to be like a fine art, and sharing it with people is one of the easiest ways to get her to talk, and she tends to get
quite excited over certain things in particular.
In her heroic persona, something she's spent far too long in front of her bedroom mirror practicing, she's much more outgoing and confident. Her costume offers her a sense of anonimity and the ability to be one of the heroes she looks up to, and in it, it's almost like she's a different person. She can be loud, flambouyant, and more than a little bit cheesy in her delivery of lines and conversation. One day, she hopes to have the confidence her costume offers for herself in her day-to-day life, though for now the distinction remains quite obvious.
Background: Raised by a single father and plagued by strong anxiety that struck her in childhood, Haruka has never really been confident in herself. Growing up, she had few friends and not many people to confide in, so she spent much of her time with her dad when he wasn't busy at work. He had a quirk similar to hers, and his ability to control technologies gave him a very successful career as a computer and TV repairman. He didn't think of himself as heroic, given his physical frailty and his self-described lack of bravery. The risks of heroism were too great, so he dedicated himself to being a good father and providing for Haruka instead.
Haruka spent a lot of time getting to learn about her dad's interests, and took to using computers at an early age. She used them to play video games and generally spend time on, though she found herself with a much deeper understanding of the processes of technology than a kid could have gotten by simply screwing around for fun. It became clear that her quirk had begun to manifest, and by age 10, she was taking apart and building exceptionally powerful rigs without so much as a second thought. If parts weren't strong enough, she'd take them apart and put them back together three times as good. It could've been a grand moneymaking skill, but she soon found other interests.
One day, she came home from school to find her dad tuning into a new season of a show that was part of an exceptionally long-running franchise, something that he'd watched when he was a kid himself, Kamen Rider. Haruka immediately fell in love with the series. It reminded her of the heroes at large in the world, but there was something special about it in particular that clicked with her. The flair, the style, something that no hero she knew of exactly matched. Over the next couple of years, Haruka took in more and more of the tokusatsu genre. Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Garo, kaiju films, anything she could get her hands on.
It put ideas into her head. If no hero like the ones in her shows existed yet, maybe she could be that hero? She began dreaming of it, imagining how she could help the heroes in their quest to protect the innocent from evil, and how nobody would even have to know who she was behind the mask. She could be someone else, someone not bogged down by their social anxiety, someone who wasn't afraid to help people. She spoke proudly of her intentions, and spent time in her room practicing her "hero voice," as she called it, while using a Kamen Rider belt toy as a prop.
But she remembered her quirk, and how little use it would give to her in a fight. Even if she had the costume and the flair, what could she do with a power that let her fix computers? At first, she ignored the concern, convinced she could figure out something else. Maybe physical training could be enough? But in the end, she knew that it wouldn't be, and her idealistic dream spiraled away from her. Her excitement died, replaced with a melancholy feeling of uselessness and a broken dream.
Her father stepped in to help her out of the rut she'd fallen into. After running a marathon of Haruka's favorite toku show, he revealed to her something that he had kept secret. He was once part of a heroic duo made of himself and Haruka's mother, where he acted in a sidekick role to help maintain and support her mother's heroics, as her quirk essentially made her into a natural cyborg. Together, they were an effective duo, but Haruka's mother died only a year after she was born in a villain attack. Haruka's father could not perform heroics on his own, and had given up to make sure Haruka had a good life. It was clear to him that with how she felt, he wasn't accomplishing that.
He encouraged Haruka to follow her dreams and become the hero she wanted to be. He told her of how much more she could accomplish with her quirk, and that if she set her mind to it, she could learn how to use it effectively and follow her dream. He offered Haruka her mother's old helmet, though he encouraged her to personalize it and make the legacy her own. Haruka was uplifted out of her despair with this newfound knowledge, but didn't know where to begin.
Her father immediately offered to enroll her into Komei Academy. Haruka was almost overwhelmed by this. Her path became clear, and the way was open to her to become who she had wanted to be and protect those who couldn't protect themselves. She could make a name for herself. She could be the change in the world that she thought it needed.
She could become a hero.
Quirk: Technopath
Haruka is able to control technology with her mind and understand it within moments of examining it, so long as it abides by her general understanding of technology. Things like computers, cellular phones, and machinery are things she knows like the back of her hand. While she could easily utilize her powers to simply control the functions of these kinds of machines, she's taken it a step further and used her quirk to create and control the functions of a set of powered mechanical armor. The armor requires no power source due to the use of her quirk actively manipulating the costume and its functions, and it has the ability to generate and utilize in-built weaponry for combat while also giving her a general boost to strength, agility, and durability. It also adds a robotic filter to her voice and deepens it slightly. Any technology under the influence of Haruka's quirk emits a bright blue glow, such as the lights on her costume.
Due to fighting with the suit itself rather than physically exerting herself, she can last as long as her quirk is activated, though it also means she doesn't physically improve herself at all in the suit, and she's potentially vulnerable to the quirks of other technology-using people. Additionally, maintaining her quirk under physical distress can be challenging. Even if the suit protects her, she can definitely still feel the pain of impacts. The more worn down she gets, the harder it is to keep her suit going, and if her quirk deactivates while she's inside, she'd be trapped within. Putting the suit on and taking it off actively rebuilds part of the back, and without her quirk's use, getting her out would require destroying it.
Talents: Haruka could be said to be a good actor, considering the personality split between her normal self and her costumed self. In an entertaining twist, she could very well have a promising career as a tokusatsu suit actor if hero business doesn't work out for her. Likewise, she has exceptional knowledge of tokusatsu itself, from various shows to behind-the-scenes trivia and where to get them from. Outside of tokusatsu, due to her quirk, she's very good at building and maintaining computers for her friends, and tends to provide them with quirk-modified pieces to keep them top of the line.
Stats:
Power- D
Speed - D
Technique - A
Intelligence - B
cooperativnesss -C
With Suit
Power - B
Speed - C
Metal Zeta